Rena Morse — a director of semantic technology from Charlottesville, Virginia
Venkat Krishnan — an I.T. manager from Sharon, Massachusetts
Emily Herndon — a bakery owner from Knoxville, Tennessee (whose 1-day cash winnings total $8,100)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emily | $1,400 | $3,000 | $11,600 |
$6,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$12,600
19 R, 3 W (including 1 DD) |
| Venkat | $3,000 | $4,600 | $7,400 |
$1,000
3rd place: $1,000 |
$7,400
10 R, 0 W |
| Rena | $1,400 | $4,800 | $16,200 |
$9,199
New champion: $9,199 |
$16,200
18 R (including 2 DDs), 0 W |
| MUTT | JEFF | THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR DIDN'T GO TO... | "DEL" AWARE | DYNASTY | NORMAN ROCKWELL'S SATURDAY EVENING POST COVERS |
|
$200
[10]
It's a song that blends or meshes tracks from 2 or more other records
mashup
Emily
|
$200
[9]
Bud Fisher created the "Mutt & Jeff" comic strip while working for this West Coast city's chronicle
San Francisco
Rena
|
$200
[6]
1954's "Three Coins" here
in the fountain
Emily
|
$200
[1]
Fragile, or finely made
delicate
Emily
|
$200
[13]
Drink up! This family ruled France off & on until 1848
Bourbon
Rena
|
$200
[18]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Postcover at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA.) Soon favoring photographs, one of the last paintings for which Rockwell used live models was for a 1936 cover depicting this type of singing group
a barbershop quartet
Rena
|
|
$600
[20]
The item sometimes called a runcible spoon also has this 5-letter combined name
spork
Rena
|
$400
[25]
Under this man's leadership, amazon.com became the largest online retailer
Jeff Bezos
Emily
|
$400
[7]
This "tradition"-al 1971 film about Tevye & his daughters
Fiddler on the Roof
Emily
|
$400
[2]
Here comes one of these big bad floods
deluge
Rena
|
$400
[14]
No kids, big problem: she was the last Tudor monarch
Elizabeth I
Venkat
|
$400
[23]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a Postcover at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA.) The original"Boy on High Dive" painting from a 1947 cover now belongs to this "Lincoln" director, who says that we're all on diving boards during our lives & that taking the plunge is something we must face
Steven Spielberg
|
|
$800
[21]
Hybrid bicycles combine the qualities of road bikes & these more rugged ones that go off-road
mountain bikes
Rena
|
$600
[29]
He's been a dominant force in his sport In the 1990s and 2000s
Jeff Gordon
Emily
|
$600
[8]
This 2009 movie with the highest box-office take of all time
Avatar
Emily
|
$600
[3]
A person elected to act in the name of a group
delegate
Emily
|
$600
[15]
Fu on this dynasty that ruled China until 1912
Manchu
Rena
|
$600
[24]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a Postcover at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA.) For a wartime cover in 1943, Rockwell got a phone operator from his hometown in Vermont to pose as this iconic character
Rosie the Riveter
Emily
|
|
DD
$1,000
[19]
Ice cream, in layers of chocolate, vanilla & strawberry is named for this city
Naples
Rena
|
$800
[28]
This tycoon is the CEO of DreamWorks animation
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Venkat
|
$800
[11]
This 1961 nominee about war crimes trials
Judgment at Nuremberg
Emily
Venkat
|
$800
[4]
Behind on your mortgage payments
delinquent
Venkat
|
$800
[16]
This dynasty's name comes from the German for "hawk's castle"
Hapsburg
Venkat
|
$800
[30]
(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a Postcover at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA.) Submitted for the New York World's Fair in 1939 was Rockwell's cover of adisheveled druggist, also known by this old-fashioned name
an apothecary
Rena
|
|
$1,000
[22]
Sadly or happily, modern versions of this oxymoronic literary genre include Pinter's "The Dumb Waiter"
tragicomedy
|
$1,000
[26]
From 1983 to 2013 Jeff Bingaman served as a U.S. senator from this western state
New Mexico
|
$1,000
[12]
1932's "I Am a Fugitive from" one of these collectives
a chain gang
|
$1,000
[5]
To dig, perhaps for information
delve
Venkat
|
$1,000
[17]
The Sabah dynasty rules this kingdom bordering Iraq
Kuwait
|
$1,000
[27]
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a Postcover at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA.) 1948's "Homecoming" cover was truly a friends-and-family affair:there's Rockwell, these are his three sons, and overhereis this friend & fellow artist
Grandma Moses
|
| EARS TO CLASSICAL MUSIC | LINGUISTICS | THAT PLACE IS "GRAND"! | WORLD WAR I SLANG | WRITERS ON THE PERIODIC TABLE | EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION |
|
$400
[7]
Naturally, the flute plays a part in the opera overture heard here by this man
Mozart
Emily
|
$400
[6]
The main syntactic voices are active, middle & this one
passive
Emily
|
$400
[12]
This city about 25 miles east of Lake Michigan, was founded by a fur trader in 1826
Grand Rapids
Venkat
|
$400
[23]
When kids accuse each other of having these, they don't know that WWI sanitation popularized it as slang for lice
cooties
Emily
|
$400
[1]
___ ___ Wells
mercury (Hg)
Venkat
|
$800
[17]
Gleeks will speak of William McKinley High School & this singing star Emmy-nominated for her role of Rachel Berry
Lea Michele
Emily
|
|
$800
[8]
World Book says this German "is considered the greatest genius of Baroque music"
(Johann Sebastian) Bach
Rena
|
$800
[19]
A triphthong isn't your swimsuit, it's a group of 3 of these sounds in one syllable
vowels
Emily
Rena
|
$800
[13]
The John D. Rockefeller Jr. memorial parkway links Yellowstone to this national park in Wyoming
Grand Teton
Venkat
|
DD
$1,000
[24]
The German gun "Long Max" was not as famous as this alliterative Krupp product
Big Bertha
Emily
|
$800
[2]
___ ___ Lewis
cesium (Cs) (or chlorine (Cl))
Emily
Rena
|
$1,200
[18]
Weeks & weeks at William McKinley High School were seen on this coming-of-age Fred Savage sitcom on ABC
The Wonder Years
Rena
|
|
DD
$1,000
[10]
What a ride! In 1856 Wagner finished this opera, unwittingly adding his work to numerous future movie soundtracks
The Valkyries
Rena
|
$1,200
[20]
This linguistic term for the performer of a verbal action sounds like an actor's representative
agent
Emily
|
$1,200
[14]
George Town serves as a world capital on this Caribbean island, the largest in its group
Grand Cayman
Emily
|
$2,000
[25]
A German verb meaning "punish", by war's end it meant attacking with machine-gun fire from low-flying aircraft
strafe
|
$1,200
[3]
___ ___ Shelley
lead (Pb)
Venkat
|
$1,600
[27]
In 2006 this Kristen Bell TV title character was off to Hearst College; in 2014 she got kickstarted back to life on film
Veronica Mars
Emily
|
|
$1,200
[9]
I love hearing this Norwegian in the "morning"
(Edvard) Grieg
Rena
|
$1,600
[21]
"Ecotourism" is an example of this type of -ism recently created & added to the popular lexicon
neologism
Rena
|
$1,600
[15]
Hold your water! This city on the Columbia River is about 80 miles from Spokane & comprises 3 former towns
Grand Coulee
|
— |
$1,600
[4]
___ ___ Hinton
selenium (Se)
Emily
|
$2,000
[26]
Shewas high-school coach's wife Tami Taylor before moving to another down-home show
Connie Britton
Emily
|
|
$2,000
[11]
Hearing from this Austrian is always a "surprise"
(Joseph) Haydn
Rena
|
$2,000
[22]
"Problems with pinning down word meaning" is a section in a textbook titled this subject
semantics
Rena
|
$2,000
[16]
Let's dine at this N.D. city on the Red River; yah, it's not far from Fargo & has an Air Force base nearby, dontcha know
Grand Forks
|
— |
$2,000
[5]
British mistress of mystery___ ___ James
palladium (Pd)
|
— |
A 2012 poll by Britain's National Army Museum voted this man, born in 1732, as the nation's greatest military enemy
George Washington